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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"OMOCHIKAERI ''[''I wanna take it home with me'']''~!"''|'''[[Trope Namers|Rena Ryuugu]]''', ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
There are times when something is just so pure, innocent, right and '''[[Kawaisa|adorably cute]]''' that even the most level-headed persons are struck by a quaint phenomenon we Tropers like to call "[[Cuteness Proximity]]", in which all pretences of stoic maturity are dropped to reveal [[Tastes Like Diabetes|an affectionate and nurturing, sweet-tongued]] [[Cuddle Bug|teddy bear who wants
▲{{quote|''"OMOCHIKAERI ''[''I wanna take it home with me'']''~!"''|'''[[Trope Namers|Rena Ryuugu]]''', ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]''}}
▲There are times when something is just so pure, innocent, right and '''[[Kawaisa|adorably cute]]''' that even the most level-headed persons are struck by a quaint phenomenon we Tropers like to call "[[Cuteness Proximity]]", in which all pretences of stoic maturity are dropped to reveal [[Tastes Like Diabetes|an affectionate and nurturing, sweet-tongued]] [[Cuddle Bug|teddy bear who wants to]] [[Glomp|hug the subject of cuteness all day long]]. Sometimes, it can get so bad that said persons [[Cuteness Overload|cannot comprehend and withstand the intense emotional effects.]]
Sometimes, the Cuteness Proximity is ''so'' intense that it stirs not only mere affection, but actual paternal and maternal love. The afflicted will want to actually become the adorable one's father, mother or older sibling, and will:
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2) GRAB the poor little one and SHOUT "I'm taking her/him home with me!" as he or she runs off like a kidnapper.
More so than Cuteness Proximity, this will either endear the audience to what is obviously a very warm and loving person, or creep them out by revealing what is a dangerous and perverted [[Lolicon]] or [[Shotacon]].
Another way this can end badly is if the abductor [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]], and their overly ''physical'' expression of affection [[And Call Him George|spells doom for poor little "George"]]. Occasionally, the "cute creature" in question is either [[Ugly Cute]] at best, or [[Fluffy the Terrible|downright monstrous]]. Or [[Monster Is a Mommy| has parents that are even ''more'' monstrous.]]
For obvious reasons, [[Don't Try This At Home]]. Has [[I Thought It Meant|absolutely nothing]] to do with [[Taking You
▲Has [[I Thought It Meant|absolutely nothing]] to do with [[Taking You With Me]].
{{examples}}
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Clannad (
* In ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Ranma ½
▲* In ''[[Ouran High School Host Club (Manga)|Ouran High School Host Club]]'', Honey gets this reaction from pretty much every female (and some males) that see him, being a senior but having the rough size and appearance of an incredibly adorable blonde eight-year-old, particularly when he's got his stuffed bunny with him, as he usually does. He's even more [[Tastes Like Diabetes|sugary]] than the sweets he's almost always seen munching on-but [[Beware the Nice Ones|watch out]], he's not exactly a pushover when it comes to a fight!
* In ''[[
▲* In ''[[Clannad (Visual Novel)|Clannad]]'', the adorably innocent [[Cloudcuckoolander|Ibuki Fuko]] says she wants to do this to little Ushio-chan, {{spoiler|Tomoya's daughter}}, and to be her older sister. Pictured above.
* The pet store clerk in ''[[Chi's Sweet Home
▲* In ''[[Mahoraba (Anime)|Mahoraba]]'', the eccentric president of the occult club takes an intense liking to Asami-chan, who is the first person to be so innocent that she finds her creepy jokes funny.
▲* ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]'': [[Kawaiiko|Azusa Shiratori]] is very prone to this, grabbing new "cute" items and giving them a French name, and then claiming ownership of them. If it resists, she'll knock it out. If it's yours, and you resist, she'll knock ''you'' out.<br />In the anime version, she tries to "adopt" a half-eaten rice cake soon afterward. When Genma manages to polish it off before she can steal it, she screams in horror and beats him senseless. Her collection, in the few glimpses we've seen of her mansion, has been shown to include an octopus balloon, a stop sign, and even weirder things. In an anime-exclusive episode, she adopts a [[Youkai|Tanuki]] statue -- and when Kunô cuts his way out of it (it fell on him beforehand), she promptly adopts him as well, thinking he must be a ''real'' tanuki.
** Yuki Nagato, [[The Stoic|of all people]], reacts this way in ''The Melancholy of [[Haruhi-chan]] Suzumiya'' when she finds the newly revived "Achakura", proceeding to place her in her bag and ''literally'' take her home. This might be a case of maintaining the [[masquerade]]... but Achakura is ''very'' cute.▼
▲* In ''[[Kannagi (Manga)|Kannagi]]'', Nagi sees a pair of kittens curled up and sleeping outside of Jin's house. She finds them so irresistibly cute that she wants to take care of them herself. Jin's not too keen on the idea, as his current living arrangement prevents animals from taking up residence inside.
▲* The pet store clerk in ''[[Chi's Sweet Home (Manga)|Chi's New Address]]'' does this even after discovering Chi has an owner. The reason she ''can't'' have one is because her little brother [[Animals Hate Him|is afraid of cats]] -- but as it turns out, her brother happens to be Yohei's friend Ryu, who got over his fear about 20 episodes before this was revealed.
▲* ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]''
▲** Yuki Nagato, [[The Stoic|of all people]], reacts this way in ''The Melancholy of [[Haruhi-chan]] Suzumiya'' when she finds the newly revived "Achakura", proceeding to place her in her bag and ''literally'' take her home.
** Tsuruya said this about Mikuru in a waitress costume.
** Don't forget the ''original'' case, where Haruhi practically ''kidnaps'' poor Mikuru because of her [[Moe]] factor. {{spoiler|We get to see it from a slightly different perspective in ''Disappearance'', where it's just as hilarious and extremely awesome to boot.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Isumi Saginomiya in ''[[
* Shin from ''[[
* ''[[Full Metal Panic
** Teresa "Tessa" Testarossa gets this reaction when she introduces herself to Kaname's high school class in ''[[Full Metal Panic Fumoffu]]''. All the guys go "WOOOAH!" while all the girls cry [[Even the Girls Want Her|"Oh she's so cute!"]] with accompanying love hearts.
** Sôsuke evidently elicited this kind of response when he was [[Adorably Precocious Child|young]]. Just like in the trope description, his Cuteness Proximity was so incredibly intense, it managed to melt the hearts of ''war-hardened veterans'' and pretty much made them internally [[Squee]] that they want to take him home and make him their child. Which they then proceed to attempt to do. He certainly never lacked people who were all too eager to take him in as their own. Starting with Majid, an <s>Afghanistani</s> Helmajistani rebellion leader whom Sôsuke had ''tried to assassinate'', who liked him so much that he adopted him as his "Son of Bdakshon's Tiger", and raised him with complete kindness. And then there was Kalinin, who wanted Sôsuke as his son from the very beginning, and took him as a prisoner of war ''after Sôsuke tried to assassinate him''. He then proceeds to persistently try to get Sôsuke to agree to be his adopted son (which he refused, since he already had Majid as his "father"
* [[Depraved Homosexual]] Lussuria from ''[[
* In ''[[
** The follow-up series, ''[[Negima Second Season
* In ''[[Baccano
* Referenced in episode 9 of the new season of ''[[Darker
{{quote|
** This may be a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* Though not to the point of the trope's name, after Tohru's initial encounter with Kisa in ''[[
* In the ''[[
* Rena Ryuuguu from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* The cold-hearted, and, at times, cruel [[Battle Butler]] Sebastian in ''[[
* In chapter 12 of ''[[
* In ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* This is Kyrie's reaction toward Toppi from the ''[[World Destruction]]'' manga when Toppi and Morte save his life. Toppi does not take being called "cute" well.
* Eisuke Kitamura in ''[[Stepping
* In ''[[Panty
* Iris from ''[[Pokémon (
* While Sasha ''[[
* ''[[
* Gajeel Redfox in ''[[
** In this case however, it's less about cuteness and more about, as his two fellow Dragon Slayers have cat companions with them, he figures he's lacking as a Dragon Slayer if he didn't find one as well. Pantherlily's badassness is exactly why Gajeel likes him.
* One story in the Shoujo Jump edition had a girl who helps a friend (boyfriend?) catch a wild rabbit in a snare. After accomplishing the deed we see into her mind the scenarios of her keeping the rabbit as a pet (feeding it, giving it it's own little house, etc) much to her friend's chagrin. She's horrified to discover that her friend has a more "culinary" interest in the animal, and she lets it escape.
* A more serious example occurs in ''[[
* A creepy (though hilarious) version happens in chapter 210 of ''[[D
* Katanashi in ''[[Working
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Blackest Night]]''
** Gross example: Larfleeze wants his own Guardian, so when our heroes encounter Scar
** Even grosser is Kryb, the Sinestro Corps member who compulsively abducts infants and keeps them in her exposed ribcage.
* ''[[Candorville (Comic Strip)|Candorville]]''. Susan, who [[Horrible Judge of Character|consistently makes the wrong choices in regards to who she befriends]], does this to a ''wolf''. {{spoiler|Though there are indications [[Charm Person|the "wolf" didn't give her much choice in the matter]]...}}▼
== Fan Works ==
* ''[[
** A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JpPSAF0wGw voicepack] for [[Boisterous Bruiser|Suika]], of all people, has this very phrase in it. Makes sense, since Oni are traditionally known to carry people off when they lost contests, and Suika is strong enough to carry away anyone she'd want.
** ''Touhou'''s other oni, Yuugi, is also frequently portrayed by fandom as carrying off others. [[Jerkass Woobie|Parsee]] [[Green-Eyed Monster|Mizuhashi]] is a [[Chew Toy|favorite victim]], [[Crack Pairing|for some reason]].
** Another [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/504564 example] involving [[The One Guy|Rinnosuke]] being turned into a cute little boy. Apparently being called Onee-Chan was a little more than [[Miko|Reimu]] and [[Kleptomaniac Hero|Marisa]] could handle. [[Shotacon|The drool on the sides of their mouths seems point to less then pure intentions]].
** [http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=564214 The last option for what to do with Byakuren] [[Cool Big Sis|Big-sis]]:
{{quote|
Overlook her
'''Take her home''' }}
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
* Performed by the [[Trope Namer]], Ryuguu Rena, on a cosplaying Yuki, in ''[[Kyon:
* ''[[
* In the ''[[
* Vinyl Scratch continues the silliness [http://scramjet747.deviantart.com/art/The-Bass-Has-Been-Doubled-299273909 here]. Poor Octavia.
* The [[Mega Crossover]] [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007
** And a perfectly straight example happened when [[Labyrinth
* ''[[The Hill of Swords]]'': Any time Tabitha shows her vulnerable side,
== Film ==
* In ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', Dory the blue tang wants to do this with a cute, very small jellyfish... until she learns that jellyfishes ''sting''.
* In ''[[The Lion King]]'' when Timon and Pumba first run across Simba, Timon's first reaction is to panic because of, well, the food chain. Pumba meanwhile thinks Simba's such a cute little guy that he asks, "Can we keep him?"
* Veruca Salt, in both versions of the film based on the novel ''[[Charlie and
* Played for Laughs in the first ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' movie. The heroes first meet April when Raphael saves her from some muggers. April is knocked out, and seeing as he can't exactly take her to the hospital (as he's a mutant turtle) he brings her to the lair. Splinter clearly does not approve of him doing something so rash, and Michelangelo doesn't help matters by saying, "Can we keep her?"
▲* Veruca Salt, in both versions of the film based on the novel ''[[Charlie and The Chocolate Factory]]'' is a menacing version of this. Among other things, she demands a goose/squirrel and an Oompa-Loompa. [[Villain Song|And she wants it now!]]
== Literature ==
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* In ''[[The Time Machine]],'' the Time Traveler has encountered a race of people who are essentially humans that stop developing physically and mentally at age six. He has fallen in like with one of the womenfolk. "Weena I had resolved to bring with me to our own time." (Ch. 7)
* Subverted in ''[[Dune]]'', and combined with [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]. The Harkonnen's Mentat Piter de Vries wanted to keep Jessica Atreides for himself, but quickly dumps the idea when the Baron offers him to stay and rule Arrakis in his name instead.
* Veruca Salt, as mentioned above in Films, wants to take a squirrel home with her in ''[[Charlie and
* "The Kidnapping", by Shiga Naoya, is a perfect example of this trope. The narrator sees a little girl and decides that he must have her for his own.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Ryutaros from ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'' is very fond of cute animals and tends to bring them back to the DenLiner, sometimes regardless of whether they're homeless or not. Reaches an extreme when he does it to a fellow [[Monster of the Week|Imagin]], which introduces the cast to [[White Prince|Sieg]]...
* Liz does this accidentally on ''[[30 Rock
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'''Pete:''' Oh right, and you have someone else's baby in your car. }}
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. Samantha Carter makes friends with a little alien boy in "The Nox". O'Neill informs her drily that, "No, [she] can't keep him."
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== Music ==
* Perhaps Guy
{{quote|
Doesn't age a minute for a year in a vacuum
But dies on the way home[...]
I can't take this one home
I can't take this one home'' }}
* Darkly invoked in [[
{{quote|
She's got everything I need, some pills in a little cup'' }}
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* ''[[Candorville (Comic Strip)|Candorville]]''. Susan, who [[Horrible Judge of Character|consistently makes the wrong choices in regards to who she befriends]], does this to a ''wolf''. {{spoiler|Though there are indications [[Charm Person|the "wolf" didn't give her much choice in the matter]]...}}
== Tabletop Games ==
* One of the things [[Player Character]]s do when they don't kill anything that moves and loot anything that isn't welded to the floor.
** The story of [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Noh Noh], about a group of adventurers who find the guardian in a [[Secret Test of Character]] too adorable to leave behind.
** From ''[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]]'':
{{quote|114. The Demilich only falls for getting stuffed in the bag of holding once.
281. I cannot get emotionally attached to any generic nondescript unnamed NPC.
786. No I cannot keep the drow priestess we just found as a pet.
2059. Even if I no longer lose SAN around them, no domesticating nightgaunts. }}
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
** Yukari is said to ''spirit away'' people whom she takes a fancy to. This includes taking home people from ''outside'' Gensoukyou.
** In ''Phantasmagoria of Dim Dream'', Yumemi decided she wanted to take home one of the magical denizens of Gensoukyou, [[For Science!]]!
** After spending most of ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' geeking out at the prospect of meeting an alien Sanae refuses to believe [[Humanoid Abomination|Nue]] is a youkai, and after she defeats her drags her off to take pictures with her.
* ''[[
** If you bring your [[Canine Companion|Mabari War Hound]] to the city of Denerim in ''Dragon Age: Origins'', he will abruptly run off and return a cutscene later with a small boy in tow. The boy just jumps up and down excitedly shouting "PUPPY!" You have to convince your dog to take him back home.
** Also Anders & Ser Pounce-a-lot in ''Awakening''.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* In the Ork campaign of ''[[Warhammer
* ''[[Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon]]''; {{spoiler|the end of the game has Luigi adopt the Polterpup.}}
=== Visual Novels ===▼
* [[media:
▲== Visual Novels ==
▲* [[media:kor_Higurashi_YOU_GONNA_GET_TAKEN_HOME.jpg|Rena Ryuuguu]] of the mystery-horror franchise ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]]. Whenever she sees something she regards as cute, she melts into a complete ditz and fawns over the subject of cuteness like a mother/big sister. Occasionally, she takes it a little too far, as the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVSjavz_w0g following] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghLTQwSwmc0 videos] show the frightened audience. However, sometimes what she perceives to be "cute" can be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv9eqniuvMg odd] if not downright '''disturbing''' to more normal people.
** In the sound novels, this is often intentionally invoked to enable Rena's "adorable mode". [[Super Mode|In this mode, she cannot be beaten by anyone.]]
** Apparently, this attitude is contagious. Keiichi starts to act this way (most likely as a joke) when confronted with Shion in [[Fan Service
** Miyo Takano acts this way for, em, [[Nightmare Fetishist|creepy torture equipment]].
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
** Cute boy {{spoiler|Sakutarou}} often falls victim to this when around the [[Seven Deadly Sins|Stake sisters]]. (Especially Mammon, what with her being [[Greed]] and all.)
** Jessica says this in her [[Image Song]].
* ''[[Fate/stay
** Shirou took Ilya home (and Taiga approved) in Fate route despite the fact that she was an [[Ax Crazy]] enemy of his only five seconds earlier, and tried to kill him, Saber, Rin, and Archer, and abducted him once.
** On the other hand, Ilya had taken Shirou home in quite a few of the Bad Ends. Taken home [[A Love to Dismember|in pieces]] that is.
* Mizuki wonders if she can take Chihiro home during her chapter in ''[[Ef:
* An unnamed woman in ''[[
== Web Animation ==
* In the ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Cyanide
* In ''[[The Lounge]]'', for a while it was a running gag for people to see the very petite Jamie MacKenzie and equally short (but teenage) Max Espinoza and ask how much they cost. Usually when they were wearing a cute hat or costume.
* In ''[[
{{quote|
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120508040757/http://www.drunkduck.com/Batman_Retold/?p=725261 These] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120508040831/http://www.drunkduck.com/Batman_Retold/5258297/ two] ''Batman Retold'' strips.
* ''[[Sequential Art (
* ''[[A Girl and Her Fed]]'' had [[Only Known
* ''[[
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* A serious variant happens sometimes in ''[[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]''. Sues' children are usually saved if the agents can wrangle it.
* In ''[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]]'', Welch's characters are prohibited from doing this to drow priestesses.
* ''[[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]]'' got [http://notalwaysright.com/fritzl-be-one-of-those-days this case].
* In the ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Peanuts
* An episode of ''[[
* Elmyra of ''[[
* ''[[
* [[Tex Avery]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo8HM77q4Is did it first]. "Hello George! Glad to know ya, George! You're my new lit-tle friend, George! My new lit-tle friend. What I'm gonna do is to pet ya and play with ya, George!" ''(crunching of bones in a hug)''
* A rather odd example in ''[[The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]]''. Villain Jeremiah Surd and his minions have hijacked Air Force One and they plan to kill everybody in it with a deadly nerve gas. Our heroes Jonny, Jessie and Hadji get themselves captured while trying to rescue the President. Bandit (Jonny's pet dog) is also there. When Lorenzo, one of Surd's minions (who is usually very competent in his ruthlessness, except for being rather [[Book Dumb]]) points Bandit's presence out to Surd, the boss tells him to "throw him in, too." And Lorenzo goes: "But he's so cute! Can I keep him?" Surd, predictably, says no.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* In the ''[[Teen Titans (
* In ''[[Kung Fu Panda
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOwogW6RC40 There is a Youtube clip of Pedobear doing this to a child at one of the larger cons.]
* And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sYmUOeOVls this clip] from a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' convention. For a child dressed as a ''Dalek''.
* The reason inter-species adoptions are possible
* According to her ''[[Misfits of Science]]'' co-star Mark Thomas Miller, the teenaged [[Courteney Cox]] evoked this reaction in everyone who met her:
{{quote|I mean, there wasn't a single person that had any negative to say, not a single person who wasn't in love with her and didn't want to take her home. That’s just who she was.|[http://popdose.com/an-exclusive-excerpt-from-misfits-of-science-an-oral-history/ ''An Exclusive Excerpt from "'Misfits of Science'": An Oral History"'']}}
* [[Andrew Jackson]] was known to have adopted a Native American boy named Lyncoya. Unfortunately, most sources claim Jackson himself was the one who ordered the attack that slaughtered Lyncoya's parents and kin, so his motives are rather murky.
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